Link building is the art of pointing people to your website through rankings of the search engines. It is one of the best search engine marketing techniques that you can use to move your website to the first page of search engines. This is accomplished by establishing links to your website which increases the number of hits your site will get, which in turn the search engines will begin to move your site up the list to the first page. You are more than likely asking yourself, "this seems easy, and I’ll be on top in no time!" Well it is more than just that, the quality of the thinks is the science and the art to get your website on top of the rankings.

Search engines have software that tells the site that your website is relevant to the content to your site. Because of this your links coming in must be able to be recognized by the search engines and anchored to them. This is accomplished through website optimization through key words which are on your website. My key words are affiliate programs. For example, on my website on my kitzmanmoneybrew.com, 2 of my key phrases which are variations of my keywords are, making money with affiliate programs and proven ways to make money with affiliate programs. These phrases can be found throughout my website. Your website should have at least 4 different combinations of your key phrases or key words. You will get your links by writing articles to article directories, bloging, and submitting press releases. In your efforts use your key words in the articles, blogging, and press releases. But make sure, Ill say that again make sure that your signature file is set up correctly and in blogger that you will accept back links.

Another way to get quality links is commenting on blogs and post relevant and intelligent statements in forums. I have found that posting 5 times a day between 2-3 posting services gives you really good quality of links. But again make sure you sig file is set up correctly you will see services offering links. SAVE YOUR MONEY, these services are not worth the money being paid. The only way to get quality links is with a properly configured website using the techniques described above. To check your links you can use marketleap.com, they have an excellent web based program for free to check your links. The tools they provide are search engine and key word tool.

In all, the most important point to get out of this article is make sure your links are of high quality and stay away from anyone who wants your money for "quality links". Be diligent in your article writing and blog postings, which will give you the quality links you are looking for.